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Researchers into the impact of sound from marine energy generation devices have “blasted fish at volume levels that the animals would experience if they were effectively strapped to the turbines for 24 hours. [The animals seemed only to suffer] some tissue damage, equivalent perhaps to what a teenager would experience at a rock concert.” (http://www.nature.com/news/power-from-the-oceans-blue-energy-1.15045)

Developers and environmentalists have agreed to name the field of marine turbines Marillion.